MORPHOLOGY OF ORCHID FLOWERS. 



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pointed out, although this term is an appropriate nnv it luul 

 ah-eady been taken up for a totally different organ, and is universally 

 applied to the footstalk of a flower; he therefore proposed the naiv.e 



Capsules of Cypripedium. 



A, hiisutissimum ; b, Drurii ; c, caudatuin. 



(From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



stipes as being " equally appropriate and without the saine inconvenience, 

 for it is generally used as the support of any organ."* 



Tliere are three stigmas in every orclii.l llnwcv, alth.Mi-h apparently 



* Jouru Liun Soc XVIII. p. 280. Tlnou^h iimdverteuce arising from long u.sage of the 

 l.incUeyan terminology, the terms applied to the parts of the poUinary apparatus m the text 

 have not been strictly adhered to in the Synopses of the Genera and Species. 



